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Here’s your weekly history photo post (formerly Wednesday History, but I keep forgetting to post it on Wednesdays). This 1925 shot is a old gas station at 14th and Belmont with the unusual name of Toot-An-Kum-In. Before you get the wrong idea, that’s a play on Tutankhamun, aka King Tut. The Shorpy page notes the…
How healthy and safe are our restaurants and grocery stores? Very healthy. I just discovered via U Street Girl that the city now has a searchable health inspection website so I decided to take a look at local spots to see how they fared. For the most part, they all fared very well. About the…
After my post about the lack of bike racks in the neighborhood, I emailed DDOT, who responded quickly: We’re aware that Columbia Heights needs more racks and will be adding more soon. Right now, we’re just waiting on a new shipment. They should arrive in late August. At that time, we hope to put in-street…
Via the good folks at the Borderstan blog, the L&N Thrift store at about 14th and T will be moving to our neck of the woods at a space at Georgia and Columbia. Nice to see this, and that means one down on the list of what we’re missing. L&N has a lot of random…